Cristiana Dobner

Diaconate and not only

Questions requiring answers. Not rhetorical questions or marked by toadysm. Consecrated women have freely enjoyed this opportunity without breathing down on Francis’ neck but requesting a set of guidelines on how to proceed. Women’s presence understood according to a new modality. It’s not to demolish centuries of oppression, whether real or presumed; not to perceive […]

Jubilee

Exhibitionism? Rhetoric? Unquestionably, some voices will be raised like opposing winds in a sunny day. But whoever is sincere and true to himself will admit that suffering has weighed on his existence. The consoling aspect hereby proposed doesn’t experience the aftertaste of assuaging for reasons of peace of mind, to keep problems aloof, even distancing […]

Emergency in the Aegian Sea

All progress made for the political union of Europe originated in crises caused or worsened by disagreements between Member Countries. Although when facing the ups and downs of the integration process it’s always a matter of removing the causes of the crisis first, the solution always presumes the improvement of Community procedures and institutions, so […]

Great Britain and the EU

“We British have our own Commonwealth of Nations. These do not weaken, on the contrary they strengthen, the world organisation. They are in fact its main support. And why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this mighty continent? […]

Christianity and politics

A few days ahead of the 90th birthday, April21, when she will be recorded in history as the longest-reigning monarch in the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth decided to publically talk about her Christian faith for the first time. In the book by the Bible Society, HOPE and the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, released throughout […]

Targeted Christians

The tragic attack in Lahore has left the entire Pakistani nation in a state of deep shock and incredulity. It was the most heinous attack in the history of this city. It has claimed the lives of 74 people, men, women and children, with over 350 wounded. Most of the victims are Muslims, although Christians […]

Survey of the University of Trnava

Can Slovakia be described as a Catholic country? How do young people live their faith? What is their attitude towards the Church, and towards priestly and religious vocations? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in the findings of an exclusive survey carried out by the Faculty of Theology of the […]

Under the banner of Kaczynski

European institutions, still suffering the after-effects of the economic crisis, and engaged on the refugee-emergency front, view Poland with preoccupation. Since the single-party government of the conservative right (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc – PiS – Law and Justice) took office on November 16 last year, of which Jaroslaw Kaczynski is the undisputed leader, EU institutions and […]

European scandal

Every Wednesday, during the traditional Papal audience, St. Peter’s Square is becoming the pulpit from which Pope Francis again and again calls the attention of the world and of the Church on the plight of refugees and displaced persons, on the responsibilities of individuals and Countries alike, asking them to open their doors and to […]

Ten thousand Holy doors

It’s one of those news items we seldom read in the papers: ten thousand Holy Doors have been opened in this Year of Mercy. Over two million eight hundred thousand people have passed through the Doors in the first 100 days of the Jubilee. It should be said that it would be impossible to make […]